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Every title here carries a US certification we can point to — no guesswork, no crowd-sourced vibe check. Pick the age you’re shopping for and we’ll show you what clears it, with our score where we’ve done the work and the critics’ numbers where we haven’t.
Anything rated R, NC-17, TV-MA, or carrying no rating at all is excluded from this page entirely.
All Ages: G · TV-Y · TV-G · Older Kids: PG · TV-PG · TV-Y7
Family Picks
The kid-appropriate titles we’ve actually reviewed, best score first.
Casablanca
1943
A gin-soaked nightclub in Vichy-controlled Morocco, December 1941: Rick Blaine runs his establishment on studied neutrality, refusing favors and avoiding politics until the arrival of Ilsa Lund forces a reckoning with a past he's built his whole pose against. Michael Curtiz constructs the film as a wartime romance triangulated against ideology — Ilsa's husband is a Czech resistance leader whose exit papers Rick happens to hold — so that a love story becomes a question about what a person owes history when history comes looking. Bogart and Bergman carry the emotional weight, while Claude Rains, as a cheerfully corrupt French prefect, holds the moral ironies in place.
Streaming on HBO Max
Spirited Away
2001
A ten-year-old girl wanders into a bathhouse for spirits and cannot find the door back. Her parents have been transformed; her name is being taken from her; the rules of this world reveal themselves only as she breaks them. Miyazaki builds the film as a picaresque set inside a single enormous building, using Chihiro's labor — she must work the bathhouse to survive — as both plot engine and structural spine. Each floor, each corridor, introduces a new register: slapstick, dread, unexpected tenderness. The world compounds rather than explains itself, and the film's hold comes precisely from that density, a logic felt before it's understood.
Streaming on HBO Max
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
Miles Morales gets his spider-bite in a film that treats the origin story as a premise to move through rather than a destination to linger on. The interest is structural: Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman build the film around a collider accident that pulls half a dozen Spider-people from incompatible dimensions into Brooklyn, each rendered in a visually distinct idiom — anime, noir, slapstick cartoon — that the film holds in the frame simultaneously without resolving the collision into a single house style. Shameik Moore plays Miles as someone still working out who he is; Jake Johnson's older, frayed Peter Parker functions as a foil who's run out of room to grow. The animation does the genre argument: form as content, style as character.
Streaming on Netflix
Groundhog Day
1993
A TV weatherman with a gift for condescension gets sent to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and finds himself locked in a loop, waking every morning to the same six o'clock alarm and the same Sonny and Cher. Harold Ramis builds the film as a comedy whose engine is repetition — the same beats hit with incremental variation, Murray's reactions shifting from bafflement to hedonism to something more searching as the days accumulate into an uncountable span. What keeps it from becoming a stunt is that the loop is never explained or resolved on mechanical terms; the film treats the premise as a given and lets character carry the weight.
Streaming on Sony Pictures Core
Project Hail Mary
2026
Streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
Inception
2010
A thief who works inside dreams is hired to do the reverse of what he does best: not steal an idea but plant one. Christopher Nolan builds this around the logic of nested architecture — each level of the dream a deeper fold, with different physics and a different pace of time — so that what looks like a heist film gradually becomes a puzzle of overlapping spaces running simultaneously. Leonardo DiCaprio's Cobb carries the emotional throughline, a man whose access to the subconscious is also his liability. The film earns its runtime by keeping those layers legible, stacking action across parallel planes rather than cutting between them arbitrarily.
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23 titlesCasablanca
1943
A gin-soaked nightclub in Vichy-controlled Morocco, December 1941: Rick Blaine runs his establishment on studied neutrality, refusing favors and avoiding politics until the arrival of Ilsa Lund forces a reckoning with a past he's built his whole pose against. Michael Curtiz constructs the film as a wartime romance triangulated against ideology — Ilsa's husband is a Czech resistance leader whose exit papers Rick happens to hold — so that a love story becomes a question about what a person owes history when history comes looking. Bogart and Bergman carry the emotional weight, while Claude Rains, as a cheerfully corrupt French prefect, holds the moral ironies in place.
Streaming on HBO Max
Spirited Away
2001
A ten-year-old girl wanders into a bathhouse for spirits and cannot find the door back. Her parents have been transformed; her name is being taken from her; the rules of this world reveal themselves only as she breaks them. Miyazaki builds the film as a picaresque set inside a single enormous building, using Chihiro's labor — she must work the bathhouse to survive — as both plot engine and structural spine. Each floor, each corridor, introduces a new register: slapstick, dread, unexpected tenderness. The world compounds rather than explains itself, and the film's hold comes precisely from that density, a logic felt before it's understood.
Streaming on HBO Max
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
Miles Morales gets his spider-bite in a film that treats the origin story as a premise to move through rather than a destination to linger on. The interest is structural: Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman build the film around a collider accident that pulls half a dozen Spider-people from incompatible dimensions into Brooklyn, each rendered in a visually distinct idiom — anime, noir, slapstick cartoon — that the film holds in the frame simultaneously without resolving the collision into a single house style. Shameik Moore plays Miles as someone still working out who he is; Jake Johnson's older, frayed Peter Parker functions as a foil who's run out of room to grow. The animation does the genre argument: form as content, style as character.
Streaming on Netflix
Groundhog Day
1993
A TV weatherman with a gift for condescension gets sent to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and finds himself locked in a loop, waking every morning to the same six o'clock alarm and the same Sonny and Cher. Harold Ramis builds the film as a comedy whose engine is repetition — the same beats hit with incremental variation, Murray's reactions shifting from bafflement to hedonism to something more searching as the days accumulate into an uncountable span. What keeps it from becoming a stunt is that the loop is never explained or resolved on mechanical terms; the film treats the premise as a given and lets character carry the weight.
Streaming on Sony Pictures Core
Toy Story 5
2026
The toys have always competed with something — a newer model, a yard sale, a child growing up — but a tablet reframes the threat structurally. Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and the gang now contend not with a rival toy but with a device that makes toys as a category feel optional. Andrew Stanton, returning to Pixar animation after the *Finding* films, builds the premise around that generational friction: a child absorbed by a screen, a roomful of characters whose entire purpose is suddenly in question. Whether the film plays that as adventure, comedy, or something more melancholy in its margins remains to be seen.
Coyote vs. Acme
2026
Hoppers
2026
A girl slips her consciousness into a robotic animal body and steps into a world she thought she understood — Hoppers builds its adventure around that central gimmick and treats the animal kingdom as genuinely alien territory rather than a backdrop for cute behavior. Daniel Chong structures the film as a discovery narrative that keeps widening its own scope: each hop into a new body reframes what Mabel thinks she knows, until the animal world begins to look less like nature and more like a system with its own logic and secrets. The animation has work to do here, rendering both the robotic vessels and their organic counterparts in a register where the strangeness of the premise stays legible.
Streaming on Disney+
Moana
2026
Swapped
2026
Streaming on Netflix
Minions & Monsters
2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026
Streaming on Peacock
TV-PGMoonbeam
2028
PGTenzing
2026
TV-PGCoven Academy
2026
PGSense and Sensibility
2026
PGShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
2026
PGForgotten Island
2026
TV-PGLion
2026
Streaming on Disney+, Hulu, fuboTV
PGAvatar Aang: The Last Airbender
2026
Streaming on Paramount+
GDescendants: Wicked Wonderland
2026
The fourth chapter of the Disney Channel Descendants franchise picks up where the time-travel reset of the previous installment left off: the altered past has produced a new threat, and Red and Chloe find themselves assembling a fresh ensemble to contain it. Kimmy Gatewood structures the film around the familiar franchise rhythm — a mixed coalition of villain kids and hero kids learning to trust each other while the larger threat closes in — but the Wonderland setting keeps the visual grammar tilted toward the surreal rather than the courtly. Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker return as the central pair, with Rita Ora lending adult-cast weight to proceedings that otherwise run on the energy of its younger ensemble.
Streaming on Disney+, fuboTV
TV-GSee You at Work Tomorrow!
2026
Streaming on Prime Video
PGThe Breadwinner
2026
Nate Wilcox has spent his whole adult life as the family's earner; when his wife Katie lands a deal on *Shark Tank* and leaves for an extended business trip, he's suddenly the one holding down the house. Eric Appel builds the film as a domestic role-reversal comedy, running the joke not on incompetence but on the specific disorientation of a man whose identity was built around a function he no longer has. Nate Bargatze and Mandy Moore play the couple, with Bargatze's deadpan understatement carrying most of the weight once the premise kicks in and Katie exits the frame.
PGThe Magic Faraway Tree
2026
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